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(Audley, George). Reade, Aleyn Lyell; compilerAUDLEY PEDIGREES: Compiled for George Audley of Liverpool by Aleyn Lyell Reade. Parts I and II. (2 volumes)London & Bradford, U.K.: Privately printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co Ltd, [1929-1932]. [1929-1932]. Good London & Bradford, U.K.: Privately printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co Ltd, [1929-1932].. [1929-1932].. Good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/2 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are soiled & stained and darkened & chipped around the edges. The front wrap of Part I is heavily darkened with 2 tears to its front edge, & there is a faint ownership stamp on the Part II front wrap. The spines are darkened with their heads & tails lightly chipped. Title, [ii] & pages [1]-98, unopened; and pages [99]-200, partially unopened. There is some staining to the first few leaves of Part I. There is light foxing to the first 2 leaves & staining to the last 2 leaves of Part II. Good.

Lydia Mehitable Chandler [b. 1830] was the mother of Frederic Webster Goding and was descended from William Chandler [d. 1641], first in line of the New England Chandler family. Her mother was Phidelia Chase. First Edition.
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35.00 USD

(Young Family). Seaver, J. MontgomeryYOUNG FAMILY RECORDSPhiladelphia, PA: American Historical-Genealogical Society, (1929), (1929), Very good Philadelphia, PA: American Historical-Genealogical Society, (1929),. (1929),. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial brown wrappers with the Young coat of arms in red on the front wrap. The wraps are lightly bumped with some very light soiling to the rear wrap. 48 pages. 1 page of black-and-white illustrations. The page corners are lightly bumped with light creasing to the top corners. Very good.

The history and genealogy of the British and American Young family are traced from sixteenth-century England through the first decades of twentieth-century America.
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15.00 USD

Volume one only of this first edition, complete in itself. Only 750 copies were printed.

The contents of this volume consist of: 1. "Barons by Tenure, whose Honours have been considered to have terminated, circ. 49 Henry III"; 2. "The Barons of the Counties Palatine of Chester and of Durham, distinguished from the Barons of the Realm"; 3. "An Account of those Persons who were summoned to Parliament, with whom the Honour expired; or who, or their Posterity (although existing), did not continue to receive the like Summons"; 4. "An Appendix, being the complete Substance of Sir William Dugdale's Lists of Summons to Parliament". First Edition.
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150.00 USD

Mills, EllaA GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS MILLS, One of the First Settlers in Dunbarton, N.HMarlboro, MA: Times Book and Job Print, 1893. 1893. Fair Marlboro, MA: Times Book and Job Print, 1893.. 1893.. Fair. - Small quarto [7-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The wraps are rubbed, soiled & chipped with a piece out of the bottom corner of the front wrap. The spine is perished & has been partially repaired with scotch tape. 32 pages. There are pencil notes on the verso of the title and a number of pencil notes & markings in pencil [a few of them in red & blue] in the text. Good working copy.

[Laine, P.-Louis; and Laine, Francois-Jules]ALBUM DE BLASONS DES ARCHIVES GENEALOGIQUES ET HISTORIQUES DE LA NOBLESSE DE FRANCEParis: Alp. Leclere fils, Libraire-Editeur, circa [1850]. [1850]. Fair Paris: Alp. Leclere fils, Libraire-Editeur, circa [1850].. [1850].. Fair. - Octavo, contemporary period brown calf with gilt ruled frames with formal decorated corners on the front & rear cover. All edges are marbled. The rubbed and scuffed covers are detached and the spine has perished. Half-title, title page, 2 page alphabetical table of contents and 84 fine engraved plates illustrating the coats of arms of French nobility. Also illustrated with 5 engraved genealogical charts tracing the ancestry of specific French nobles depicting each forebear's coats of arms. An early Madrid bookseller's blindstamp is present on the half-title. The edges of the front endpaper are chipped and the first few leaves are darkened. The top edges of the leaves are slightly darkened and there is some very minor occasional foxing throughout. Internally very good and well-worth rebinding.

From the library of Vte. Arthur de Bizemont, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

Plate #23 is not present and appears not to have ever been published. It is not called for in the Alphabetical table of contents.

George Gatfield "Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign Heraldry and Genealogy" dates the book as circa 1850.